Speed Racer Grandma
Reading a friend’s post about how his grandma taught him how to work on cars has reminded me of my own grandmother. She didn’t work on cars, but she would drag race the kids on the highway between here and Savannah.
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D&G Keeps Rocking and Rolling During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Shannon Bond As St. Joseph natives wait out the coronavirus pandemic in their homes, it’s nice to know that
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Would You Play Along With My Virtual Drive-In?
We’re going to pick a day and a time and a movie. And we’re going to watch it in our cars!
On our phones. On our tablets. On our laptops. Folks that want to go all out, can use their home projectors and show it on their garage doors. However. And we’ll watch. Together.
Dig Out Your Joes
But we have a lot of paper copies. Not all, but a lot. Most of the early stuff. And we have everything in the cloud since the hard drive bit it.
So, I’m working on a montage of our covers. Lots and lots of covers. Some clever. Some lame. Lots of very bad Photoshop.
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Playing Guitar on the TKE House Porch
When I heard that my friend Rod Powell passed away, I couldn’t help thinking of when we met.
I was still in high school, driving a ‘58 Chevy pickup with a busted gas gauge. Ran out on 28th Street, a couple blocks from Mitchell. Didn’t know what was going on up ahead, but I could hear it!
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Confessions of a Fizzy Water Fan
But the other day I was at the store, and ran into an old dude I knew from my wilder and crazier days. We were shootin’ the breeze about nothing in particular, like folks do, when he noticed the cases of fizzy water in my cart, and started razzing me. “I ought to take a picture. Vennis A. Vennable buying fizzy water. Nobody would believe it!”
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Kicking Home Confinement’s Ass
You had to love my late brother, Unkle Pat. (Everybody called him that including our mother. And that’s his spelling, not mine.) Anyway, he got arrested a lot.
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The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
I finished “The Artist’s Way,” by Julia Cameron, in 2019 and my best advice to aspiring artists would be to take what is usable and leave the rest. According to many well-respected humans from the past, such as Siddhartha Gautama and Walt Whitman, this is always a good approach. Each of us has a creative process and our own systems of belief. Art is a craft and to create, we must invite the creativity to flow through us.
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